By barbara | Published:
May 30, 2009
I’ll be giving a 5-10 minute “lightning” presentation on my literary mapping project and how it fits together with my dissertation at the Mellon Seminar Digital Humanities Symposium on Monday, June 1st, at UCLA.
The seminar is free and open to all, and I believe the whole afternoon will also be broadcast in Second Life as [...]
By barbara | Published:
May 30, 2009
A bit of background: this post is a response to @jcmeloni’s recent blog post On Going from Industry to Academia, which was itself a response to a discussion @jcmeloni and @georgeonline had on Twitter, which I belatedly butted in on. As she puts it:
There was some discussion on Twitter approximately a billion years ago (I [...]
By barbara | Published:
March 24, 2009
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, and I’m determined to write something, even if short, to celebrate.
There is definitely part of me that balks at singling out women based on their gender, but the fact remains: there is a distressing paucity of females working in tech today. If holding up examples of women in tech whom [...]
By barbara | Published:
February 27, 2009
I’m now on Twitter, folks! Follow me there for what will be undoubtedly far more posts than you can find here. My aim for the account is to collect and disperse information pertaining to intersections between (digital) technology and the humanities.
[I'm putting "digital" in parentheses because I don't want to limit myself to digital [...]
By barbara | Published:
February 27, 2009
I have clearly not been very good at keeping up my blog here. I’m going to blame the obvious culprit: my dissertation.
The good news is that I finally seem to have figured out a writing routine that is productive for me. This consists of producing 2 pages a day, 7 days a week, religiously. Every [...]
By barbara | Published:
December 23, 2008
Thanks to my friend Brendan Piper for posting the link to this map on facebook. Too bad the Interstate system isn’t actually a subway! I’d love to jump on right now and go to visit a few friends at some of those stops. I wouldn’t even mind changing lines a few times.
Of course this particular [...]
By barbara | Published:
December 13, 2008
I went downtown to the LA Central Library for the first time today. It’s something I’ve been meaning to do for ages, since it’s something of an historical and architectural landmark, and apparently the third largest public library in the U.S. in terms of books and periodical holdings. I didn’t wander around the building all [...]
By barbara | Published:
October 23, 2008
Strangely enough, the buzzword for me around my work these days seems to be collaboration. I say “strange” because I’m currently writing a humanities dissertation, and that’s hardly a group-work kind of affair. And it’s true, the writing itself will always be done in isolation. I don’t think there’s any way to get around it, [...]
